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Holler Rat: A Memoir

What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table?

Tons of handmade swag! I handmake vintage magnets to give out to the people I meet at book festivals.Bookmarks and stickers too! 

Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from reading your book?

I welcome everyone to stop by. I think that anyone who has felt a split or division in their life will connectwith my book. 

Could you please tell us something curious about you and/or your book?

For one thing, I wrote the book backwards. It’s my first literary endeavour and I didn’t realize that where Iwas beginning was actually more of an ending. It took me about two years to figure that out. 

Is this your first time participating in Kentucky Book Festival? If yes – what are you looking forward to themost? If you’ve participated before – what was your favorite experience at the Festival? 

Yes, I’m very much looking forward to meeting all of the other authors and picking up a ton of books for myTBR piles. I love reading all types of Southern writers and can’t wait to meet new ones. 

About the Author

Anya Liftig is a writer and performance artist whose essays have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and whose artworks have been exhibited at TATE Modern, MOMA, Queens Museum, Movement Research, Performer Stammtisch Berlin, Performance Space London, and many other venues around the world. In Holler Rat, Anya skillfully interweaves family lore from her childhood with descriptions of her performance art pieces and scenes of the year-long period in which her life fell apart, then plumbs the cathartic self-reckoning that followed.

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